Inside Rice University’s 2025 UFO Conference
In June’s co-publishing partnership with Oxford American, UFO enthusiast and author Will Clarke goes behind the scenes at Rice University’s 2025 Archives of the Impossible Conference in Houston, Texas.
Houston (9)
In Conversation With Anthony Suber
Zahrah Butler interviews Houston-based artist Anthony Suber on his community-based work through the Black Man Project, the abstraction of identity through masking, and hopes for the future.
In the Studio with Corey De’Juan Sherrard Jr.
Jeremy Johnson visits the Houston-based studio of Corey De’Juan Sherrard Jr. to discuss internet nostalgia, Black abstraction, and collective world-building.
Designing Motherhood at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston
May Howard reviews Designing Motherhood, a timely exhibition on the material history of human reproduction at Houston Center of Contemporary Craft, Houston.
In the Studio with Nathaniel Donnett
Zahrah Butler visits the Houston studio of cultural practitioner Nathaniel Donnett to discuss music, locality, and abstractions of the Black experience.
Round 57: Southern Survey Biennial II at Project Row Houses, Houston
Lauren Stroh reviews the second iteration of the Southern Survey Biennial, a snapshot of contemporary art in the South, at Project Row Houses, Houston.
New Suns: In Conversation with Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud
Amarie Gipson interviews artist and advocate Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud on policymaking as a creative act and New Suns, her exhibition at Lawndale Art Center, Houston.
That Sunnyside Pride
For the debut feature of our Twang theme series, Amarie Cemone Gipson profiles the work of Houston artist Irene Antonia Diane Reece and her documentation of the city’s Sunnyside neighborhood.
Tomashi Jackson Renders History’s Defining Moments in Halftone Lines
As the 2024 election season concludes, Jasmine Weber considers the stories of voter disenfranchisement and intergenerational struggles found in the abstract color paintings of Houston-born artist Tomashi Jackson.
